Chapter 247: Lord Pa Ke's Viscount Castle Breached!

The activities of dark creatures cannot exist without death qi!

In places thick with death qi, their activity becomes even more intense, like a machine that never stops, able to wander everywhere and attack all living beings.

But once they leave the dark death zones, their vitality decreases over time.

Especially during the day, under sunlight, the dark death qi on their bodies leaks away at an extremely fast rate.

Under normal circumstances, a low-level dark creature in a normal zone without death qi can survive for at most two days.

This is also why, although dark creatures pose a serious threat to the Continent of Glory, they have not truly swept across the entire continent, bringing endless calamity.

Because the source of their death qi, for the vast majority, must overflow from the world they came from.

Although they can later accelerate the spread of death qi by slaughtering living beings.

But the heartland of the kingdom contains numerous powerful nobles, both great and small.

Once a new point of death qi spread appears, it can be wiped out by the nobles before long.

Only the borderlands, like the Death Mountains and the Chaotic Wasteland here, because no one noticed them, allowed them to gradually grow stronger.

Of course, because the population here has decreased, the threat from dark creatures is not so great.

It merely means the kingdom will need to expend a bit more effort to clean them up later.

"Kill!"

"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"

The battle at Lord Pa Ke's Viscount Castle has begun.

Because they knew that if the castle fell, no one would survive, whether elite guards or serf soldiers, they fought with all their might, very hard.

And although the dark creatures are numerous, the main force attacking the walls are those skeleton soldiers.

The reason is very simple.

Although legends say that when dark creatures invade in numbers reaching the Catastrophe level, they indeed know how to use tools to attack human cities.

But that is just a legend.

Moreover, the current numbers are vastly different.

So, the dark creatures outside Lord Pa Ke's Viscount Castle have not shown such a situation.

Facing walls as high as eight or nine meters, neither the dark hounds nor the carrion beetles can cross them.

Only the skeleton soldiers can rely on their hard finger bones and foot bones to directly insert into the gaps between the wall stones.

Although these gaps are also filled with clay, for the skeleton soldiers, it seems no different from having no gaps at all; they can use these gaps to slowly climb up.

Moreover, the climbing method of the skeleton soldiers makes the defending army feel more pressure than fighting a normal army.

Because the space outside the castle gate is actually not wide, just a small platform a dozen meters wide.

If it were humans, they would need to place ladders, at most seven or eight sets.

The guards would only need to focus on a few ladders.

But these skeleton soldiers can appear at any point on the wall.

Even on the side cliffs, skeleton soldiers climbing up might appear!

Therefore, this greatly increases the difficulty of defense.

Fortunately, these skeleton soldiers are half as strong as ordinary people, and they cannot fight back while climbing, which avoids the fate of Lord Pa Ke's Viscount Castle being breached in an instant.

"My lord, do you think they can hold out?"

"That is hard to say; if it were a Baron's Castle, with walls only seven or eight meters high, the difficulty would increase greatly!"

"But for a Viscount's Castle, with higher walls and more complete defensive measures, that is not certain!"

Facing Knight Mi Gen's question, Gervas shook his head.

One thousand dark creatures, if they suddenly invaded a village or even a small town, would absolutely be a calamity.

But for a war fortress like a castle, the difficulty is still somewhat great.

If Lord Pa Ke had not previously been beaten by him into heavy losses, even losing his Guardian Knights, these one thousand dark creatures could not have posed any threat to Lord Pa Ke's Viscount Castle!

"Alright! I was hoping to see the scene of Lord Pa Ke's Viscount Castle being breached, those bastards bitten to death by dark creatures!" Knight Mi Gen was somewhat disappointed, a typical onlooker who enjoys a bigger spectacle.

"Knight Mi Gen, even if those dark creatures cannot breach it, Lord Pa Ke's men are probably exhausted by then, and the difficulty for us to enter the castle will be greatly reduced!" Knight Lei Meng only cared about matters related to the battle.

"Haha, that works too; when the time comes, I will be the first to charge into the castle for my lord, to see the shocked expression on Lord Pa Ke's face when he sees us!"

"Just showing off!" Gervas scolded him in a bad mood, "By the way, how are Lord Pa Ke's subjects in the small town?"

"My lord, when the dark creatures were lured over, dozens of dark creatures wandered over there; now that small town is in chaos, and all the townsfolk are fleeing frantically!"

"Excellent!"

Gervas felt completely at ease.

Those townsfolk will be the best witnesses to the dark creature attack tonight.

Later, when the kingdom sends people, their testimony can directly help Gervas clear his name.

So, even if the dark creatures themselves did not wander over, Gervas would find a way to attract some over there.

Of course, now that the dark creatures ran over on their own, it is even more convenient.

Time passed minute by minute, quickly reaching the second half of the night.

By now, the cries from the small town have completely disappeared; obviously, all the townsfolk who could escape have already fled.

But on the castle side, it is still lively.

The roars and wild cries of the dark creatures continue.

The skeleton soldiers' attack is also proceeding.

However, both sides of the battle are suffering huge losses; this is also true.

Among them, the original seven or eight hundred skeleton soldiers had now decreased by at least half.

And the guards of Lord Pa Ke, the viscount, might also have lost half their numbers.

Overall, however, this Castle of Pa Ke might indeed hold against the assault of dark creatures.

Because if the remaining two or three hundred skeleton soldiers could be dealt with, the other dark creatures would only be able to watch helplessly beneath the city walls.

Gervas had originally expected exactly this.

But when time reached roughly two or three in the early morning, an unexpected change occurred for Gervas.

Within Castle of Lord Pa Ke, which had been gradually calming down, suddenly came shrill cries.

And the mere two or three hundred dark creatures left at the castle gate streamed in one after another through the main door, all rushing into the castle.

"What is happening?" Gervas stared in utter astonishment.

He had prepared to personally lead his subordinates to clean up the aftermath, yet who would have thought the castle would be breached so easily.

Although this outcome suited his wishes even better, it was far too sudden.

Soon, Gervas's doubts were resolved.

Isabella, responsible for aerial surveillance, flew back and reported the specific situation.

It turned out that a huge hole had been found at the base of the castle gate.

That is to say, while the skeleton soldiers were attacking the city, the dark creatures had not been idle either; instead, they had managed to destroy that city gate.

This was no easy feat, after all, for the castle gate was made of very hard ironwood, and its surface was further wrapped in iron sheets.

Yet, regardless, the dark creatures had truly accomplished it.

And with the wall's barrier gone, even the remaining two or three hundred dark creatures would be enough to give everyone inside Castle of Lord Pa Ke a hard time!

"Haha, the God of Glory has manifested! My lord, the God of Glory has punished that shameless and despicable Viscount Pa Ke!"

"Indeed, the God of Glory must know that Viscount Pa Ke has committed countless evils, and therefore has given him the fate he deserves!"

Upon hearing this, Knight Mi Gen and others immediately burst into laughter, taking malicious delight.

However, Pa Ke's luck was truly terrible!